Suzuri Ink Stone / Porcelain Grinding Dish

This slightly rough white porcelain grinding dish works perfectly to grind colored stick inks. (I did not try black because I have a black stone for that.) I removed the ground ink immediately to a smooth porcelain palette dish to hold the wet ink while I ground different colors , and wiped the wet grinding dish back to complete white each time easily with a damp paper towel or cloth. The white grinding dish cleaned easily to perfection without any fuss! I did carelessly let the ground inks dry on the smooth white ceramic palette holding all of the ground inks and they were a beast to clean off and I will never do that again, nor will I ever let inks dry on the grinding dish as I am certain clean up might be hard if I did that. Having a white grinding stone made assessing the depth of pigment from the colored inks sticks easy and accurate. The cost was reasonable for the quality and I recommend this product wholeheartedly! The product arrived well-packaged and very promptly! HINT: use a smaller silicone spatula to scrape your ground ink off the grinding dish onto your palette (to avoid wastage) and avoid letting any ink dry on your grinding dish. Best wishes to all and thanks to JN for offering this hard -to-find excellent product!